Not sports’ 11th greatest leader. Not baseball’s. The World’s. According to Fortune anyway. He’s a few notches behind the Dalai Lama and a couple slots ahead of the managing director of the International Monetary Fund.

As he begins his 20th and final season in pinstripes, Jeter remains the type of role-model player that even a Red Sox fan must grudgingly respect. It’s not the five World Series rings he’s won or his team record for career hits. In a steroid-tainted, reality-TV era, Jeter, the son of two Army veterans, continues to stand out because of his old-school approach: Never offer excuses or give less than maximum effort.

I feel like Forbes has never seen any of Jeter’s milquetoast and even relativistic (i.e. pretty reasonable) comments about PED users in baseball, but I suppose one can approach leadership in any way one wants.